Geography
- Two researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring human settlement and urbanization patterns in the United States between 1810 and 2015 using a groundbreaking new dataset from Zillow.
- New 91Ƶ-led research shows that three major “switches” affecting wildfire—fuel, aridity and ignition—were either flipped on and/or kept on longer than expected last year, triggering one of the largest and costliest U.S. wildfire seasons in recent decades.
- Recent advances in veterinary research have suggested that if your dog has cancer, it’s possible you might, too, thanks to toxins in your shared environment. But that research might not tell the whole story, according to new findings.
- “The Weight of Water” follows the blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer as he kayaks the Grand Canyon. And, for Michael Brown, the sound is a vital element of that experience.
- City trees benefit human health more than grass, 91Ƶ research finds
- Questions remain about the respiratory risk posed to a fifth of the United States population by increasing wildfires—but a 91Ƶ researcher is trying to clear the air.
- China is launching huge infrastructure projects as a way to broaden its global influence. For scholars at 91Ƶ, this trend raises new questions they aim to address with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.
- The event, titled “The Opportunities and Challenges of Economic Development,” features three experts and is scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 23, at noon in Old Main Chapel on the 91Ƶ campus.
- Newly minted professors of distinction have notable expertise in artists’ personas, natural-language technology, classic poems and climate-change education, and on Sept. 21, they offered a public overview of their work.
- In Sept. 21 event professors of art and art history, classics, geography and linguistics will deliver lectures on their areas of expertise.